Davidson High School graduate Demetrius Reynolds works as a manager at a local fast-food restaurant, Captain D's.
Like most students, Reynolds is under financial hardship and trying to afford school at the University of South Alabama.
With a vehicle older than he is, he said he's been praying that ends will meet.
A big find
While going about his usual routine at the restaurant and sweeping the parking lot on Feb. 12, Reynolds found a blue card on the ground.
"Something told me to pick it up," Reynolds said.
It was a prepaid Visa card from Walmart.
Out of curiosity, he checked the balance on the card.
$10,446.88 was on the card, he claimed.
"I was happy and excited I felt all my prayers had been answered," he said.
The money would mean that he wouldn't have to rely on his untrustworthy car, and maybe he could even get an apartment.
As his shift ended and he mulled it over, he made a decision that the money wasn't his to keep.
He said he decided to take the card to Walmart on Schillinger Road in west Mobile in hopes that the retailer could find the owner.
A customer service employee took the card and didn't ask for his name or number.
So where is the prepaid card?
Still curious, Reynolds said he went back up to Walmart the next day to ask if the rightful owner had been found, and no one had an answer for him.
Reynolds said he has prayed the card ended up in the right hands.
Walmart says there are red flags
Vic Morgan, club manager at the Schillinger Walmart, said that the retailer does not have the prepaid card and said there was no record of a card with $10,000 on it.
He then declined to speak further to the media and directed AL.com to corporate headquarters.
Walmart officials said that a prepaid card's balance cannot be checked via a register at Captain D's.
In addition, no more than $1,000 can be on that type of prepaid card according to Walmart policy.
Brian Nick, director of national media relations for Walmart, said that the case is being handed over to law enforcement to further investigate the story.
"So it is basically my word against a big company like Walmart, there's no way I'm going to win this huh?" Reynolds said when he was told of the investigation.
"Based on our initial findings we were not able to locate the card that was reported on [by LOCAL15] and will continue to look into this matter. We have also reached out to local law enforcement and will provide applicable information should they decide to investigate this matter," Nick told AL.com.
The GoFundMe
Auburn University graduate Peyton Harvill heard about what Reynolds did through Project Focus, a group that mentors young men without father-figures in their lives.
Harvill has worked with Reynolds as part of that program.
Harvill decided to create a GoFundMe to raise money for Reynolds' tuition and car repairs as a way to laud him for showing "the very definition of character" in returning the prepaid card.
He said he's offered the student money before, but that he wouldn't accept it and instead works almost full-time to put himself through college.
"What Demetrius did was the right thing to do," Harvill wrote.
That account has raised more than $5,000.